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The Spartan Digest: August 10, 2012
Welcome to "By The Numbers Friday". Here are 7 Rules on How to Hire Extraordinary Employees, that can also work as you seek out new friends and re-prioritize old ones. Just as success is often about...
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Alumni Advice: Christopher Wickman
Chris Wickman '08 is a local attorney and a proud MSU graduate. Recently he spoke to a group of students at Wonders Hall about getting involved in student government, stretching your comfort zone and...
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Spartans Engage in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
As Hurricane Sandy was pounding the northeast corrider, the Spartan Network was in action. "We're OK" became the most often posted words on Spartan Twitter and Facebook timelines. And within hours,...
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Relationship ROI
Listen to an audio version of this message. It is not about the quantity of the friendships you have – it is about the quality of the relationships that you build. ~Fred Jacobs"The key is in not...
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All Aboard The Spartan Line!
I've had a lifelong love affair with trains. My grandfather was an estimating engineer at the Lima Locomotive Works and helped create the great steam locos that were catalysts of commerce for America....
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The Art of the Struggle
Listen to an audio version of this message.“Success is .. sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.” ~Amos Bronson AlcottMSUAA National Advisory Board member, Erika Myers,...
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How I was selected to go to South Africa!
This is all still so surreal! I am pinching myself as I look out over the waterfront and see Table Mountain in the skyline. I mean, what undergraduate student gets to travel halfway across the world...
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The Spartan Connection is REAL!
So today was our first full day in Cape Town, and after an 8 hour plane ride from Detroit to Amsterdam, and then another 12 hour plane ride from Amsterdam to Cape Town, we couldn’t be more excited to...
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Spartans ARE Everywhere!
Today there was nothing official planned so Sue and I decided to visit the historic Robben Island, which was absolutely fascinating! If you care anything about history, humanitarian efforts, or social...
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What Do They Know?
Job seekers who are networking and making their efforts known are on the receiving end of a lot of advice and leads. The quality of this information is often prematurely judged by the job seeker. In...
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The Evening College Evolution
What's happening with Evening College? That's a frequently asked question these days. And the answer is, "a lot".For more than 5 decades this MSUAA sponsored effort has offered community education...
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The Spartan who stood up against racism
By Bob BenensonOn the day in which Barack Obama was sworn into a second term and we mark the courage of Martin Luther King Jr., I pay respects to another figure in the civil rights movement whose obit...
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What is a Spartan?
Listen to an audio version of this message.When I first came to Michigan State University in 1973, many of my friends at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School wanted to know why. There was a Big Ten school in...
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Spartans Will Power - A Global Day of Service
A recent survey by the US Department Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that being a volunteer can acutally make you a better leader. That wasn't news to us.We do it every day. It's imprinted on our DNA....
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Sue Petrisin Breaks Gender Barrier
From a Kiwanis press release on June 28, 2013 Vancouver, BC—Sue Petrisin, Associate Director for Alumni Programs at the Michigan State University Alumni Association and a 25-year member of the Kiwanis...
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Roses at last! - A Spartan Guide to the Rose Bowl
25 years later, MSU is headed to the Rose Bowl! And not just any Rose Bowl. The 100th Anniversary of "The Grandaddy of Them All".It's a tale right out of a Hollywood movie. A team peppered with high...
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Rose Bowl Fever
With this blog, I’m launching a series that taps into the excitement within Spartan Nation as we head to the Rose Bowl. Have you ever been as thrilled as Saturday night? I’m...
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Fun at the Rose Bowl
Yes, the Rose Bowl is “the granddaddy of ’em all.” The bowl was founded in 1902, before all the others. There is nothing fogeyish about the Rose Bowl experience. I went there...
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What to do if you didn't get Rose Bowl tickets
I'll always remember the night vividly. 1,700 lucky Spartans sitting on an aircraft carrier, watching a basketball game. There was no way that we could begin to accommodate everyone who was interested...
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